Fox & Friends Think Young Americans Should Aim Lower

If you thought those patriotic folks at Fox News have high aspirations for America’s youth, think again. Today, Fox Business Network’s John Stossel told an approving Fox & Friends host that young people should be aiming lower in their job searches.

Guest host Peter Johnson introduced the segment by saying, “With the unemployment rate stalled at 8.2%, many young Americans are finding it impossible to land their first job. But as John Stossel found out, there are jobs out there.” He played a clip of Stossel interviewing business owners looking for the likes of cashiers and fast-food chefs and “asked,” “So is the youngest generation of Americans just aiming too high? Do they need a lesson in good, old-fashioned hard work?”

It wasn’t hard to guess the answer. Included in the segment were interviews with Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren discussing their low-level first jobs (at a Carvel stand, as dishwasher and coin processor, respectively). The message was clear: take an awful job and you, too, might be rich and famous one day. What they didn’t mention was that none of them seemed to have moved up the ladder of success via those jobs. Nor did they mention how much further a minimum wage went in the 60’s and 70’s, when those three probably had those jobs.

While they were at it, Johnson gave Stossel a chance to promote his ideas on abolishing the minimum wage. So, America, time to aim lower in the pay department, too.

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Exactly, Jon! We’ve got to do whatever we can to help the job creators create jobs. If that means eliminating child labor laws, the minimum wage, welfare, non-profit health care (for the non-AARP crowd), environmental laws, consumer safety laws, and any other law, regulation or entitlement program that, in any way, might prevent the worthiest people on Earth (corporations are people, my friend!) from making a buck like the Teabag hat wearing Party wants, then so be it! If you are not a producer (i.e. – a corporation or rich person), you are a taker. Romney 2012!

Yes,minimum wages put companies at a disadvantage. I mean,why should they have to pour all those millions into lobbying to get tariffs removed so they can import for nothing,so that their manufacturing plants can still employ people for .35 cents a day?

Would be better if they could just pay American workers that .35 cents with no benefits or insurance,right Warp?

At some point when Stossel was trying to sound humble, did I hear him say, “with luck.”?

ps.
My first paying job was being a ‘gopher’ at a mom and pop photo shop. I learned how to create picture frames and cut mats and glass. I also learned how to develop and use and clean the machines that developed photos.
I think I was paid about $3.75/hr.
It was a great entry level job for a sixteen y/o in 1984.

Minimum wage just puts companies at a disadvantage. If the government would just get out of the way of business, everyone would have a job! Companies wouldn’t have to outsource their IT to India or China, or hire indentured servants through the H-1B program. Companies wouldn’t have to move operations overseas to get access to an available workforce that is, quite literally, hungry to work for pennies on the American worker’s dollar. How low a wage is low enough to have full employment in the US? $5/hour? $3.00/hour? Who knows!? We’ll only find out when the Plutocrats win. Romney 2012!

Otto and Kevin are sitting on a ledge with people going in and out of a door behind them. It’s an unemployment office. Kevin has a newspaper on his lap along with some other papers. Otto is wearing what looks like some kind of red Chinese hat.

Otto: Night watchman in Pomona.

Kevin: Yep.

Otto: Asbestos worker. City of industry.

Kevin: Yep Yep!

Otto: French fry maker Agoura. Ha Ha that’s absurd.

Kevin: Yeah? Well you think it’s funny huh? There’s fucking (lots of) room to move as a fry cook, man. You know I could be manager in two years? King! God! (egad!)

I remember my first job in 1972. It paid $1.65 an hour. Well that would equal $8.96 in todays bucks. But I was 16 years old. And the company gave out raises every year….5 cents, no matter what your pay scalewas or the amount of years you worked there. Of course they used to drop us into the degreasing tanks with a dust mask and a rope around our waists to haul you out when you passed out from the fumes. You kids today and your “I should make a living wage” bullshit. Boy, remember the good ole days?

I remember my first job in 1972. It paid $1.65 an hour. Well that would equal $8.96 in todays bucks. But I was 16 years old. And the company gave out raises every year….5 cents, no matter what your pay scalewas or the amount of years you worked there. Of course they used to drop us into the degreasing tanks with a dust mask and a rope around our waists to haul you out when you passed out from the fumes. You kids today and your “I should make a living wage” bullshit. Boy, remember the good ole days?

âSo is the youngest generation of Americans just aiming too high? Do they need a lesson in good, old-fashioned hard work?â

So what exactly are the FoxGOPTV pukes admitting? That they get paid an absurd amount of money for sitting on their fat asses all day doing nothing? Yeah, that’s what all young people should aim for.

The out of touch assholes at FoxGOPTV don’t seem to realize that it’s impossible to support yourself and be independent on a minimum wage job. “So get 2 or 3 minimum wage jobs, and share a cheap cockroach infested apartment with 6 other people” they squeal. Sure, and when is a person with 2 or 3 full-time jobs supposed to sleep, and how long can a person stay healthy working 2 or 3 full-time jobs?